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Some novel features of strong promoters discovered in Cytophaga hutchinsonii

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APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
卷 106, 期 7, 页码 2529-2540

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DOI: 10.1007/s00253-022-11869-3

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Cytophaga hutchinsonii; Promoter structure; Bioinformatic analysis; Protein expression

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [31770080, 31371262]

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In this study, the transcription start site (TSS) of C. hutchinsonii was determined using 5' RACE, and the promoter structure was identified. The results showed that the promoter activities were influenced by the TTG motif, and the promoter structure of C. hutchinsonii possessed more unique features compared to other species. Furthermore, the overexpression of protein CHU_2196 provided a new method for understanding the cellulose degradation mechanism of C. hutchinsonii.
Cytophaga hutchinsonii is an important Gram-negative bacterium belonging to the Bacteroides phylum that can efficiently degrade cellulose. But the promoter that mediates the initiation of gene transcription has been unknown for a long time. In this study, we determined the transcription start site (TSS) of C. hutchinsonii by 5 ' rapid amplification of cDNA ends (5 ' RACE). The promoter structure was first identified as TAAT and TATTG which are located -5 and -31 bp upstream of TSS, respectively. The function of -5 and -31 regions and the spacer length of the promoter P-chu_1284 were explored by site directed ligase-independent mutagenesis (SLIM). The results showed that the promoter activities were sharply decreased when the TTG motif was mutated into guanine (G) or cytosine (C). Interestingly, we found that the strong promoter was accompanied with many TTTG motifs which could enhance the promoter activities within certain copies. These characteristics were different from other promoters of Bacteriodes species. Furthermore, we carried out genome scanning analysis for C. hutchinsonii and another Bacteroides species by Perl6.0. The results indicated that the promoter structure of C. hutchinsonii possessed more unique features than other species. Also, the screened inducible promoter P-chu_2268 was used to overexpress protein CHU_2196 with a molecular weight of 120 kDa in C. hutchinsonii. The present study enriched the promoter structure of Bacteroidetes species and also provided a novel method for the highly expressed large protein (cellulase) in vivo, which was helpful to elucidate the unique cellulose degradation mechanism of C. hutchinsonii.

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